You will notice the line: Price with Pound Sign is not displaying �600.00 as expected and the line: Using NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance �600.00 as expected

in both lines the full stop is a comma the where I should have a pound sign � I get �.

The operating system I am using is Windows 2000.

I remember something about this from previous experiences (before Windows) ........ you would need to put a line in your autoexec.bat but I can't remember what it was i.e. was it device=c:\dos\ansi.sys? and also would I need to put something in my CONFIG.sys?